The speed with which armies collapse, bureaucracies abdicate, and social structures dissolve once the autocrat is removed frequently surprises American Policy makers. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
First, a confession: I liked 'The Da Vinci Code.' This news is even more of a surprise to me than it might… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“If I’m surprised at where I’m at, it’s probably because I’m not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
You have to follow where the poem leads. And it will surprise you. It will say things you didn't expect to say.… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
Seeing your work in something animated, you realize how little you have to do with all of it. It's always a surprise,… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
The Governors Ball is like a big birthday party, and all these stars are like excited kids running around - 'Oooo, look… — Sherry Yard Copy Share Image
With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I'm enjoying everything in my life, but I think the element of surprise in show business is what makes us really love… — Elton John Copy Share Image
A surprise to others, but not to me, since I've watched this closely for eight years now, is how George W. Bush… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
What people generally tell you is, "We'll all agree," and then once you sign, they expect to get their own way. I… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
“If you can sustain your interest in what you’re doing, you’re an extremely fortunate person. What you see very frequently in people’s… — Milton Glaser Copy Share Image
It's all about setting new goals. I reached one goal when I got the Sports Illustrated cover, which was such a surprise… — Nina Agdal Copy Share Image
What's great about symbols, what a writer can do with them is provide a really vivid, interesting image, and the reader will… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is no surprise I became an entertainer because many of my relatives were natural performers. Dad, who had a fine… — Vera Lynn Copy Share Image
Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
I stood on Susan Boone's front porch, feeling lame. But then, since I've pretty much felt lame my entire life, this was… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
We have seen things in the twentieth century like the ATM machine, the VCR, and even the car. The electric car was… — Joe Gebbia Copy Share Image
So much of the show [ Too Much Tuna] is improvisation, and I think that Nick [Kroll] and John [Mulaney] kind of… — Alex Timbers Copy Share Image
All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Everything has changed now. The world has changed. It surprises me to be on the forefront. I've lost all dignity! I give… — Giovanna Cau Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first serious novel, 'Interior', I was inspired by a 1978 book of Updike's, 'The Coup', which is set… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Laughter lifts our spirits, surprises and sometime shocks our expectations, allows us to cross boundaries, reorders our priorities, and gives us access… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
In books by women and for women, it should come as no surprise that heroines are the heroes of the action, finding… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Like anyone who records music or writes a song, I thought, 'Wouldn't that be cool if someday I were able to do… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
The things that you can't really foresee and that kind of surprise you, and a lot of times they are bad, but… — Alexander Wang Copy Share Image
Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
It is no surprise that neither Hillary Clinton nor the Obama State Department agrees with our request to depose Mrs. Clinton concerning… — Tom Fitton Copy Share Image
I could feel myself begin to recede, to tip and lose balance, slide toward the deeper darkness that had crept in from… — Bryan Mealer Copy Share Image
Everybody always asks me what the big surprises were that I discovered about Woody and I never have a good stock answer… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. ... The unexpected around the… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
In 1986, I returned to London as editor in chief of 'British Vogue.' Although I still thought of myself as totally English,… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
“I put complains aside and replace each of them with trials and to my surprise, some things I see as difficult were… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I think I'm open to adventures and surprises. As a performer, I'm really just naturally talented. And those roles may not look… — Bai Ling Copy Share Image
I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me - with that sort of double punch of science… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
I thought going in that I had to have this very broad, very palatable sensibility that works for everybody, but then the… — Bowen Yang Copy Share Image
However long, it's definitely the presence of other people that brings out the weirdness - that collision of your own way of… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image